There's merits to doing so and they are many; let's talk about what makes a schedule a good one.
A good schedule balances a mixture of long term and short term goals. It's just important to enjoy the task of learning how to play music as it is to become the musician you want to. If you sacrifice each day of your life to follow your dream of being the best pianist in the universe you can miss out on a lot of experiences that could have taught you much about the world and your own creativity. You might find yourself, thirty years later not knowing why the hell you learned how to play the piano in the first place. However if you live for the moment and never think about where you're headed you loose all the benifits that a well constructed plan produces.
Somewhere between those two points, today for tomorrow, or tomorrow for today, lies the best combination and the best investment of your time. The combination will largely depend on the individual. For example a student who really wishes to arrive at technical mastery of their craft will need to be more disiplined than someone who feels their involvement with music is more spritual, but the technical master is nothing without inspiration and the spritual musician is nothing without technique.
So how does a schedule help then? Well, if you can sit down at once and try to project what kind of progress you would like to make and in which areas and then you adhere to those goals you are able to ensure you're following a given trajectory. If in following this plan you discover that it's not all that it was cracked up to be, then you have a stable record of what your ideals and have a solid basis to improve your methods. You can easily identify what practices aren't best suiting your goal for being an artist.
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